Andy M. Jones

I am a Principal Archaeologist with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. I graduated from Sheffield University’s Department of Archaeology and Prehistory in 1991. After graduation, I worked for a number of contracting units, and went on to undertake a PhD at Exeter University, which was completed in 2005. This focused on the Earlier Bronze Age ceremonial monuments and barrow complexes in Cornwall and south west Britain.

My research interests include the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, particularly the uplands and coastal areas of western Britain. I am also interested in the regional variation between communities in prehistory, and co-edited with Graeme Kirkham (2011) Beyond the Core, Regionality in British prehistory.

I have also published the results of large-scale excavations including with Sean Taylor (2010) Scarcewater, Pennance, Cornwall, and with James Gossip the results from the Bronze Age settlement and ceremonial monuments at Tremough (2007; 2015). At the latter site evidence for Middle Bronze Age metalworking was explored and the relationships between settlement and ceremonial monuments.

I have recently completed the book on the results of the Whitehorse Hill cist, Dartmoor, which is one of the most significant Early Bronze Age burials to have been found in Britain. I am currently working on a monograph which will bring several prehistoric settlements to publication.

I am currently undertaking research into log coffin burials across the UK, and am carrying out a longer term project into rock art sites in south west England. I have recently carried out excavations of a Late Neolithic cup-marked propped stone at Hendraburnick and small-scale excavations at Trethevy Quoit.

Many of my papers can be accessed at https://independent.academia.edu/AndyJones